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- You can install Samsung's latest MicroLED TVs yourself - Engadget
- Intel Core i9-11900K sample goes through benchmark battery including Cinebench R20 and CPU-Z but PCIe issues force it behind an i9-10900KF in gaming tests - Notebookcheck.net
- PS5 restock coming this week — what you need to know - Tom's Guide
| You can install Samsung's latest MicroLED TVs yourself - Engadget Posted: 06 Jan 2021 08:02 AM PST  While LG and Sony have pushed OLED for their premium TVs, Samsung has pursued another display technology: MicroLED. It relies on tiny self-emitting LEDs to deliver the same deep black levels and extreme contrast you get from OLEDs, but without the limited brightness and burn-in potential. After debuting on Samsung's enormous "The Wall" set, the company is finally ready to bring MicroLED TVs to general consumers at CES, starting with the previously announced 110-inch model, which will be followed with 88-inch and 99-inch versions. So sure, these new MicroLED TVs are still huge, but they're more manageable for retailers and shoppers. You can just pick one up from the store and install it in your home, without any help from custom installers. That's in stark contrast to The Wall, which requires professional setup and potentially days of work to connect its modular MicroLED panels. Clearly, that TV was never meant for normal shoppers (especially when you factor in a potentially $300,000 cost for a 146-inch unit). With these MicroLED TVs, Samsung is taking a more familiar approach. The thin panels are pre-assembled, so all you need to do is lift the screen out of the box (using the bundled installation handles), and mount it on your wall. In the interview above, Samsung executives Mike Kadish and Dan Shinasi tell us that you'll definitely need a few extra hands to deal with such large screens. These TVs are meant to be wall-mounted, but you can also purchase a stand separately if you prefer using a console table. Even though they're pre-configured, there's the potential for the MicroLED panels to slip out alignment over time, the execs tell us. But you should be able to readjust them with a screwdriver, should the need arise. As for how these sets will look, Samsung claims they'll have an even finer dot pitch than early versions of The Wall. They're all 4K screens, as you'd expect, and they support HDR10 and Dolby Vision. Since the panel itself is thin and delicate, the MicroLED TVs rely on an external breakout box for connectivity, much like Samsung's recent premium sets. The company hasn't confirmed yet if they'll support HDMI 2.1 or a 120Hz refresh rate, but I certainly hope so, as you probably wouldn't want to upgrade these beasts anytime soon. Similarly, there's no word yet about response times or support for variable refresh rates. In true Back to the Future 2 fashion, you'll be able to watch up to four inputs at once one these MicroLED sets with Samsung's Multi-View mode. A 110-inch screen could effectively be turned into four 55-inch panels. It's a cool parlor trick, though I wonder how useful it'll be in practice. The feature is also only limited to displaying individual inputs, you won't be able to throw the TV's built-in Netflix or Hulu apps into different windows. (Though that's something the Samsung executives say could be added over time.) If you're wondering, no, we don't know what these MicroLED TVs will cost yet. This isn't unusual -- most TV companies show off their new lineup at CES and follow up with pricing and availability details in the pring. But in this case, I'll be intrigued to see how they compare to large QLED and OLED TVs. LG's 88-inch Signature ZX 8K OLED TV goes for an eye-watering $30,000, and I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung's pricing starts around there, even though these are 4K sets. MicroLED is still a fledgling display technology, after all, so it's likely tougher and more expensive to produce than OLED, which LG has been steadily churning out for years. The real question will be if any deep-pocketed consumers jump on Samsung's large MicroLED sets when large OLEDs have already proven their worth. It's one thing to be an early adopter for something like folding phones or dual-screened PCs, it's another to spend tens of thousands on a first-generation display technology. As impressive as these MicroLED TVs sound, I'd wager the audience that wants to spend a ton on a large screen may be better off with OLED, or alternative options like ultra short-throw laser projectors. |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 09:29 PM PST  The Rocket Lake-S flagship processor Intel Core i9-11900K has been put through a whole battery of benchmarks by YouTuber ChaoWanKe. The i9-11900K once again produced incredible single-thread results in CPU-Z, but it could not excel during gaming tests because of an issue with subpar PCIe connection. A sample of the Intel Core i9-11900K, which was most likely at an engineering stage, has been thoroughly tested by Chinese YouTuber ChaoWanKe. The Rocket Lake-S processor produced some excellent results but was hamstrung when it came to gaming tests in conjunction with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti card. The 8-core i9-11900K was compared with the 10-core Comet Lake Intel Core i9-10900KF (no iGPU present) and 12-core Zen 3 AMD Ryzen 9 5900X APU. Unsurprisingly, the upcoming i9-11990K, which should be announced soon and may be made available for purchase by March, performed extremely well in single-thread or single-core benchmarks. The Rocket Lake chip was the fastest out of the three in both Cinebench R20 and CPU-Z, scoring over 700 points in the latter test. The Intel Core i9-11900K CPU was also measured reaching an impressive clock speed of 5.3 GHz. Equally unsurprising was the fact that the Ryzen 9 5900X came out top in the multithread benchmarks, with its additional processor cores offering a distinct advantage. While the i9-11900K showed decent generational single-thread results over the Comet Lake chip (R20: +18.8%; CPU-Z: +25.98%), the performance increase over the Vermeer desktop processor from AMD was less impressive: R20: +1.11%; CPU-Z: +5.67%. Factor in the power usage difference (more needed for the Intel part) and the huge multithread advantage (Ryzen 9 5900X R20: +46.71%; CPU-Z: +50.71%), and it becomes more important for the i9-11900K to shine in gaming tests, where single-core power apparently matters the most, depending on the game. Unfortunately, GPU-Z revealed that the Intel Core i9-11900K was limited to PCIe x16 1.1 interactions with the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which usually connects to a system with a PCIe 3.0 interface (thus hinting at the Intel chip being an engineering sample). This left the Rocket Lake part falling behind both the Ryzen 9 5900X and the i9-10900KF in gaming tests in regard to FPS, with one benchmark showing 225 FPS for the i9-11900K compared to 270 FPS for the Comet Lake CPU and 420 FPS for the Zen 3 chip. That leaves differences of -16.67% and -46.43%, respectively, which is not ideal for a chip that will be sold on its gaming prowess. But once the PCIe issues are ironed out, the Intel Core i9-11900K should be able to challenge for the mantle of gamers' choice for high-end desktop PC builds. |
| PS5 restock coming this week — what you need to know - Tom's Guide Posted: 06 Jan 2021 05:54 AM PST A major PS5 restock is slated to hit the U.S., U.K. and Ireland this week, with Sony tipped to shift 14 million units of its new games console this year. At least that's according to PS5 Stock Central on Twitter, a regular tipster for PS5 restock updates, which noted the stock is expected to drop on Thursday, January 7. We haven't been able to verify this information, so it's worth taking it with a pinch of salt, but PS5 Stock Central has been reasonably reliable in the past. Finding where to buy the PS5 has been a major challenge for PlayStation fans, as stock across the globe sold out extremely quickly after the PS5 launched on November 12. Subsequent PS5 restocks in the run-up to 2020's holiday season allowed eagle-eyed buyers to snap up the consoles, but stock levels were generally constrained, so the PS5 rapidly went out of stock again.
The situation hasn't been helped by scalpers using bots to spot new PS5 stock the moment it comes in. The bots end up buying as many consoles as possible to then sell for hugely inflated prices. Some retailers have taken action to prevent this by limiting PS5 orders to one per person, though that hasn't stopped scalpers from trying to grab as many PS5 units as possible. Since it's been nearly two months since the release of the PS5, we're hoping that Sony has started to manufacture more consoles at a faster rate. Given the ambition to shift millions of PS5 consoles across the year, we'd hazard a guess that Sony has ramped up its manufacturing, though there's been no official word on this. Microsoft is in the same position as Sony, with the Xbox Series X out of stock at pretty much every retailer we check - take a look at out where to buy Xbox Series X article for more information. But Microsoft has appealed to AMD to help it in getting more Xbox Series X consoles to the market. As such, it would tentatively appear that both Sony and Microsoft are gearing up to have more of their new games consoles available this year. 2021 is set to be a big year for next-generation gaming, what with the likes of Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Forbidden West, Halo Infinite and Fable 4 on the horizon. |
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